Top Tech Brands & Their Name Histroy

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Nov 3, 2015
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1. Google The internet giant’s name is derived from ‘googol’, the mathematical term for numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. 2. Amazon Jeff Bezos always wanted his company name to begin with alphabet letter ‘A’. He thought world’s largest river was a great name. He hoped the company to grow as big as river someday.

3. Skype The name, ‘Skype’ has a long story behind it. It was originally named as ‘Sky Peer-to-Peer’, then they renamed it as ‘Skyper’. Eventually ‘r’ was dropped to create the current name ‘Skype’. 4. Yahoo Yahoo is a acronym for ‘Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle’. The name was violently used in Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. 5. Sony Sony is derived from ‘sonus’, a latin word for sound. Japanese people use a slang expression - ‘sonny boy’, which means ‘smart, presentable young men’. 6. BlackBerry BlackBerry is a fruit’s name. The name was used in 1999 because, the keys on the device resembled to drupelets of BlackBerry fruit. 7. Oracle Oracle’s cofounders Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a secret project called ‘Oracle’ at CIA. Oracle was an intelligent database that was able to answer to any questions. 8. Canon The company was originally called as ‘Kwanon’, which is a name of a Buddhist goddess. The company changed the name to ‘Canon’ in 1935.